Such a video was thought not to have existed after NBC and CBS, both of which broadcast the game on Jan. 15, 1967, failed to retain a copy. No one knew how important the game would become, and videotaped shows were frequently erased by the networks in those days.

All that survived of this broadcast is sideline footage shot by NFL Films and roughly 30 seconds of footage CBS included in a pre-game show for Super Bowl XXV. Somehow, an historic football game that was seen by 26.8 million people had, for all intents and purposes, vanished.

Imagine, then, the surprise of staffers at The Paley Center for Media in New York, when "This guy showed up with a shopping bag that had Super Bowl I in it."

The tape's owner said through his attorney, Steve Harwood of Norfolk, Va., that the recording had been shot by his client's father, who recorded the broadcast by WDAU-TV in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on a videotape machine at his workplace in hopes the tapes might someday be valuable.

Will we ever get to see it, and how good is the restoration job the Paley Center did on those tapes? Read the full article:

By the way, this revelation comes less than a year after a broadcast of the seventh game of the 1960 World Series was discovered and rebroadcast. What other gens might be out there for discovery?